aggravatedAfter all the lovely hype about new stuff in Jaguar, and remembering how Puma went, I had actually almost convinced myself to cough up $20 or as much as $50 USD for it when it shipped 4q 2002 or 1q2003. I was going to have trouble coughing up that much with the pushed up release date, but I was willing to do it somehow. This, however is crap. APPL (ala Mr. Steve) has removed any likelihood of me paying for Jaguar at all, and I won't even mention the impending death of my cute but valueless mac.com account.</p>
Perhaps the most offensive bit of all of this gouging is that I just bought a new Mac, my first new Mac ever, and I bought it from APPL online. It came preloaded with Puma, and I was (and am, damnit) quite happy with her (as you all are sick of hearing about), and it is far from being paid for yet. Since February, I have avoided partitioning the thing, but now it looks like I will have to consider dual booting Linux (et al) on it, as APPL thinks it can get another $129 USD out of me for printing support (I have no printer), hardware graphics acceleration (won't work on my machine), ,AIM (jabber?!), gcc 3.x (apt-get install gcc-3.1 suits me fine), spam filtering (spamassassin and procmail on the mail server, not the client), iTunes3 (still no
After all the lovely hype about new stuff in Jaguar, and remembering how Puma went, I had actually almost convinced myself to cough up $20 or as much as $50 USD for it when it shipped 4q 2002 or 1q2003. I was going to have trouble coughing up that much with the pushed up release date, but I was willing to do it somehow. This, however is crap. APPL (ala Mr. Steve) has removed any likelihood of me paying for Jaguar at all, and I won't even mention the impending death of my cute but valueless mac.com account.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most offensive bit of all of this gouging is that I just bought a new Mac, my first new Mac ever, and I bought it from APPL online. It came preloaded with Puma, and I was (and am, damnit) quite happy with her (as you all are sick of hearing about), and it is far from being paid for yet. Since February, I have avoided partitioning the thing, but now it looks like I will have to consider dual booting Linux (et al) on it, as APPL thinks it can get another $129 USD out of me for printing support (I have no printer), hardware graphics acceleration (won't work on my machine), ,AIM (jabber?!), gcc 3.x (apt-get install gcc-3.1 suits me fine), spam filtering (spamassassin and procmail on the mail server, not the client), iTunes3 (still no <a href="http://www.vorbis.com"OGG</a> support), IPv6 and IPSEC (already in all my other OSes, _not_ an add-on), and a whole stack worth of useless crap to slow down my machine, mixed with features in OS 9 only just now making it into X (spring loaded folders are back, *cheer*)... Okay I'll stop now, lest APPL turn me away from the next convention for not having community spirit ;( Frell that.
Does <a href="http://nwn.bioware.com">NWN</a> build on linux-ppc yet?
Thanks Scot, No Thanks Steve
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